Something I noticed while playing the Vell-os string a while back was that my handy topographic sense disappeared - either that or it never gave it to me in the first place. Then I tried to add it back in but didn't have any success. It's puzzled me but I haven't thought anything of it until now. It seems I cannot get map outfits to work. I'm trying to grant a permanent map to the player when the mission completes, like that in the Vell-os string but the outfit is never granted. There is an associated rank that is granted and all the mission bits get set properly so the mission is completing as it should. I had the outfit containing the map also include a few other modifiers so I took out the map and copied the Topographic Sense resource from the Vell-os string directly into the new plug and gave it a new ID, then granted both the original outfit (now without the map) and the new map resource (which also happens to include an auto-refueller). Tested it and the original outfit showed up this time but again the map outfit failed. Is this a possible new bug with permanent map outfits? The only thing left I can think to test is to take out the auto-refueller on the same map outfit - it's just a butt long mission that I don't want to test again at the moment.

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The Vell-os auto-map outfit makes use of a cron to map out the local region once a day. It depends on the presence of b424 which is the 'slave' bit that restricts purchases and such throughout the Vell-os bulk of the Vell-os string. Therefore, once you complete (or nearly complete) the storyline, it will cease to function. Of course, by then you will have mapped out a large chunk of the galaxy.

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Ahhh, well that certainly messes a little with my storyline. At any rate, thanks for the input. It's much appreciated. I was about to moan and gripe about this and say it should be made permanent in 1.0.5 but then I remembered how the maps normally work so it all makes perfect sense now. I feel pretty silly having so much trouble with it now. Still disappointing though.

(edit) well using that cron technique turned out to be cake. For some reason I thought it would be much more involved.

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(This message has been edited by Kame (edited 04-26-2003).)